Episode 204 - A Pattern of Prayer

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham.I heard of a preacher who taught on the importance of aligning our heart’s with God in prayer. He used the analogy of a boat coming up to a dock. He described the process of pulling on a rope that is moored to the dock, and he pointed out that the person on the boat is pulling on the rope, but he isn’t moving the dock — he is moving the boat to align itself with the fixed point. IN the same way, prayer requires that we surrender and submit ourselves and our will to God’s will. We’re not using prayer to change God’s will, but prayer helps to change our hearts to His will. There is no legitimate prayer that does not begin with a commitment to God’s will rather than our own. When we pray the way Jesus instructed, we are positioned for God to work great things in our lives.